Refrigerated trailer rental Carlsbad

Carlsbad falls inside the 20-mile free delivery radius from our shop at 1175 Industrial Ave, Suite J in Escondido. Both refrigerated trailers are ours, maintained in our own building, delivered and picked up by our own crew during shop hours.

The short version: two shop-owned refrigerated trailers, both holding 0–35°F, delivered to Carlsbad from Escondido. Delivery and pickup in Carlsbad are free because the city is inside 20 miles of the Escondido shop. Shop hours are Monday–Friday, 8AM–4PM PT. Call 760-745-5252 or book online.

What Carlsbad uses refrigerated trailers for

Carlsbad splits into a few distinct rental situations. The resort and golf corridor along the coast books trailers for banquet and event volume — a wedding, a tournament, a corporate weekend where the kitchen’s walk-in is already committed to normal service. The Village restaurants call for overflow and remodel coverage. And the corporate campuses and life-science buildings east of the 5 occasionally need cold space during a facilities project.

For event work in Carlsbad, the generator option matters more than usual. A lot of the good staging spots — a lawn, a far corner of a lot, a closed-off street — have no shore power anywhere near them. Book the trailer with the generator rather than planning to run a long cord to a receptacle you have not tested.

Access is the usual constraint: HOA and property-management rules, decorative landscaping between the drive aisle and the spot you had in mind, and lots that look bigger than they turn out to be for a truck and an roughly 7-foot-wide trailer. Photograph the spot and send it with your dates.

The two trailers we rent

We rent two units and only two units. There is no catalog behind this page.

12′ refrigerated trailer — about 7 ft × 12 ft, 0–35°F, runs on a standard 120V outlet. Available with or without a generator.
16′ cooler/freezer trailer — about 7 ft × 16 ft, 0–35°F, needs a 220V 30 amp plug. Available with or without a generator.

Both are about seven feet wide inside, which is wider than most of the refrigerated trailer rentals advertised around San Diego County, which are commonly six feet wide. Both hold anywhere in the 0–35°F band, so the same trailer works as a cooler or as a freezer depending on the setpoint — tell us which end you need when you book. They hold temperature; they are not blast freezers, so load product already cold.

If the Carlsbad site has no receptacle you can count on, add the generator. It is the single most common thing people get wrong on a first rental.

Booking a trailer for Carlsbad

Have four things ready: the delivery address in Carlsbad, your start and end dates, whether you need cooler-range or freezer-range temperature, and a description of where the trailer will sit — gates, slope, overhead clearance, and who will be on site to meet the driver. A photo of the spot is worth more than a paragraph about it.

Then call 760-745-5252, request an estimate, or book online. We answer and schedule during shop hours, Monday–Friday 8AM–4PM PT. We do not run a 24-hour dispatch, and we would rather tell you that than promise a midnight drop we cannot make. If your dates fall outside those hours, ask — the answer depends on the schedule.

More detail on the units, the full delivery map, and the FAQs lives on the main refrigerated trailer rental page. Related shop work: all services, custom gaskets, and walk-in cooler repair.

Left Coast Refrigeration

1175 Industrial Ave, Suite J
Escondido, CA 92029
Phone: 760-745-5252
Hours: Monday–Friday, 8AM–4PM PT